The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - Of the proposed $84  million ongoing for the program in 2026-27, California Volunteers estimates that $45  million would be used for administrative costs (rather than direct student financial aid). Of the $45  million, about half would be for administrative costs at the state level (through California Volunteers) and half would be for administrative costs at the campus level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2025-26 Budget: The California State Payroll System IT Project

Mar 7, 2025 - Over the past 45 days, the JLBC has reviewed the requested allocation alongside the most current project documentation, gathering some of the information shared in this post. This post, however, does not raise any concerns with the requested $10.4  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5011

The 2025-26 Budget: CDTFA’s Tobacco Programs

Feb 14, 2025 - This fee-funded program is a key element of the Master Settlement Agreement that California and 45 other states reached with the four largest cigarette manufacturers in 1998. The California Electronic Cigarette Excise Tax Program administers a 12.5  percent tax on retail sales of e-cigarettes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4966

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - Based on the fund condition statement , the administration estimates that this proposal would reduce revenues to the Business Filing Fund by about 45 percent—or $39.8 million. To support SOS operations that are funded by the Business Filing Fund, the administration proposes that the General Fund be used to backfill the special fund with a one‑time General Fund appropriation of $39.8 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - This funding builds on $45  million provided for the program in 2021-22. Direct Housing Assistance Funds Local Cashflow Loans for Emergency Rental Assistance. Chapter  2 of 2021 (SB  115, Skinner) authorized the Department of Finance to provide local governments with cashflow loans in 2021-22 in order to more expeditiously administer qualifying applications seeking assistance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Requires HCFC to allocate no more that 45  percent of this allocation to a single city. Counties. $224  million to counties based on each county ’s share of the 2019 point-in-time homelessness count for the CoC in their region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - In this report, we describe how the Legislature has delegated some of its core powers to allow the Governor to exercise emergency authorities during a state of emergency. Next, we assess the degree to which this is necessary to facilitate emergency response and whether there are adequate oversight mechanisms in place.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029

The 2021-22 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Spending Authorities

Mar 2, 2021 - In this case, a longer notification period would be warranted, such as 30 o r 45 days, to allow the Legislature to conduct more oversight of the transfer and its budgetary implications. For example, the Legislature could hold an oversight hearing within this longer time frame.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4393

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A 2018 state report estimated that under current GHG emissions levels, between 45 percent to 56 percent of the natural vegetation in California will be climatically stressed by 2100. Some of these impacts already are evident.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575